DELL Precision 5510 Mobile Workstation

DELL Precision 5510 Mobile Workstation

Who is the Dell Precision 5510 for?

With a thin and light design inspired by the premium XPS lineup, this machine is aimed at professional graphic designers who travel frequently.

Design Innovations

The Dell Precision 5510 retains an all-aluminum unibody chassis paired with refined, eye-catching CNC diamond-cut edges, much like the previous Precision M3800. However, rather than continuing with soft, rounded contours, Dell opted for a squarer, more angular profile that still incorporates subtle, attractive beveled edges. The chassis is also slightly thinner and more compact than its predecessor.

The display sports ultra-thin InfinityEdge bezels that maximize screen real estate. Even so, the webcam sits below the screen, which can be somewhat awkward to use. The hinge is engineered as a single continuous unit, optimized for the thin and light chassis.

Powerful Skylake CPU Performance

The Dell Precision 5510 comes equipped with 6th Gen Skylake CPUs, offering notable clock speed improvements and a completely revised architecture. Powered by high-performance chips with massive core and thread counts, the Precision 5510 easily handles demanding 3D design files and renders video smoothly in short order.

The Quadro M1000M graphics card is a standout strength of the Precision 5510 for handling 3D graphics workloads, particularly in 3DSMax.

Display

The display delivers very good quality. On the base configuration, the machine features a Full HD IPS display panel with 400 nits of brightness and a 100% sRGB color gamut, making it well-suited for most users' graphic design needs. It also serves as a great screen for everyday entertainment.

In addition, the laptop offers a 4K IPS IGZO touchscreen option with a 100% AdobeRGB color gamut, providing true-to-life color reproduction that makes it superb for design work. This is an outstanding display configuration for graphic design, especially for photo and video editing.

Keyboard and Touchpad

The Dell Precision 5510 uses a chiclet keyboard with slightly shallow key travel. The flat keycap surface can cause some hand fatigue during long typing sessions. While key spacing is somewhat tight, keypresses remain highly responsive and accurate, helping prevent missed keystrokes while typing.

The touchpad features a smooth, premium glass surface. There is virtually no lag or lack of responsiveness when navigating. Gesture controls are smooth and precise, while the two integrated buttons deliver solid tactile feedback with quiet clicks.
Models from the same line are collected in the Dell Precision 15 category; for a wider comparison, see Dell laptops. Two other models worth a look: the DELL Precision 7550 Mobile Workstation and the DELL Precision 7540 Mobile Workstation.

Ports

Because it is an Ultrabook, the machine provides only two USB Type A 3.0 ports, one on each side. The left side adds a USB Type C 3.1 gen 1 port with Thunderbolt 3 support, while the right side features a standard SD card slot and an HDMI 1.4 port. Overall, this port selection is not overly lacking for multimedia design needs.

It remains a very well-rounded mobile workstation to this day.